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Pages in category "Private islands of Washington (state)" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 16 of those are found partially or wholly in Island County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 31, 2025. [4]
Spieden Island was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, to honor William Spieden, the purser of the expedition's Peacock. [3]In the 1970s and 1980s the island was used for big game hunting; non-native game animals such as Mouflon sheep from Corsica, fallow deer from Europe, and Sika deer from Asia – along with approximately 2,000 exotic birds such as African ...
Most of the fishing in southern end of Whidbey Island takes place on the western side, in Possession Sound, Mutiny Bay, or Double Bluff. Saratoga Passage was named by Charles Wilkes , during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, for the Saratoga , the flagship of Thomas MacDonough during the Battle of Lake Champlain of the War of 1812 .
Gedney Island, also called Hat Island, is located in Possession Sound. Possession Sound was named by George Vancouver . On June 3, 1792, Vancouver landed near the present site of Everett and celebrated the birthday of George III by holding a ceremony claiming possession of the land of "New Georgia" for Britain. [ 1 ]
When the park was created in 1974 it consisted of approximately 87 acres of shoreline along Puget Sound.In 1977 local citizens filed a lawsuit against the Washington Department of Natural Resources, which managed the park, when they learned that the state agency planned to grant logging contracts on an adjacent 267 acre parcel of land known as "Classic U," which contained one of the few ...
British Marines quarried and processed limestone at or near Roche Harbor. After the territory dispute was settled in 1872 in favor of the United States, the land encompassing Roche Harbor was homesteaded by Joseph Ruff, 1872–78, and afterward owned by Israel Katz, 1878–79; and brothers Richard and Robert Scurr and their business partners, Alexander, Colin and Donald Ross, 1879-1886. [10]